The 3rd Aldurian parliamentary elections, 1682 AN (March / Early April 2020)

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The 3rd Aldurian parliamentary elections, 1682 AN (March / Early April 2020) - Alduria - 03-14-2020

THIRD ALDURIAN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS

Parliament is dissolved and an election has been called!

The election will run for two weeks - the first week will be devoted to candidate registration and for the parties to plan their election campaigns and put together their manifestos. The second week will focus on the actual election, which will include a manifesto launch, speeches, and ads for three days.

The current elections will only deal with parliament. Presidential elections will be at the end of the next month.

The election calendar will be as follows:

March 30: Candidate registrations begin - everyone who wants to run for Parliament will file their candidacy papers, this will serve as a roll call to see who will be involved in the election and the state they will represent in Parliament. (If you forgot, look in your bio or in past election sign-ins. Click here for last election's candidacy thread.)
April 3: Candidate registrations close - Candidates that do not file their candidacy papers will not be able to participate in the election. Parties that fail to field candidates considered non-existing or defunct.
April 3: Pre-polls posted - A thorough polling report about the state of affairs at the beginning of the election will be posted. It will include political party strength nationally, party strength state by state, along with approval ratings. Pre-polls shall be posted by the end of the day on April 3, 11:59 pm EST.
April 4: Party manifesto launch - All parties will need to submit a manifesto that lays out policies, ideas, and details about what they hope to implement or pursue in Parliament if they are given the chance to govern. Manifestos will need to be submitted by the end of the day on April 4th, defined as 11:59 pm EST.
April 6 to April 9: Election campaign - Each day of the campaign is one turn (except for April 8, mid-poll and break day). The parties, through their candidates, will have to have made at least some submission of material, speeches, or activities for them to advance and grow in the polls. The quality of the content will be judged on substance, clarity, messaging, and persuasion. Consistently high-quality speeches or campaign activities will impact polling strongly. You can get away with losing a day of the campaign or not submitting every day, but if you let it go for too long, it will start to hurt you electorally. Each turn ends at the end of the day, defined as 11:59 pm EST.
April 8: Break, mid-polls, and campaign commentary - You will not need to submit anything on April 8, consider it a break day. I will provide you with polling on how you are doing so far, along with basic commentary on what you're doing well and what you're doing wrong, so you can improve before the end of the campaign.
April 11: Results - Results will be released throughout the day, on Discord and on the forum.

RE: The 3rd Aldurian parliamentary elections, 1682 AN (March / Early April 2020) - Alduria - 03-21-2020

HELPFUL INFORMATION

Aldurian Regional Political Leanings and Voter Registration Numbers.xlsx

The link above will take you to a spreadsheet where you can view the latest population figures of Alduria, down to each individual state.

The spreadsheet will also break down for you the political leaning of each state of Alduria.

The spreadsheet presents the Aldurian population growth over 1678-1682, taking into account the large expansion into West Baatharz and sustained mass migration of Caputians from Keltia and Alexandrians from Keltia, Cibola, and Tapfer.

RE: The 3rd Aldurian parliamentary elections, 1682 AN (March / Early April 2020) - Alduria - 03-23-2020

Some developments in the election:

The thread for people to file for parliamentary candidacy papers is open early! If you want to participate in the Aldurian election, you have until April 3rd to file your candidacy here: https://www.alduria.cc/forum/showthread.php?tid=500

There is a thread open for pre-campaigning to begin: there will be a release of pre-polls on April 3rd. Pre-campaigning is where you have a chance to lay the groundwork for the campaign, boost your appeal, promote your party, and build the party infrastructure. With pre-campaigning you get an opportunity to influence the poll numbers so that you begin the election in a stronger position. This is the thread where you can post speeches, op-eds, speeches, op-eds, advertisements, and billboards promoting a candidate, a party, or a political cause: https://www.alduria.cc/forum/showthread.php?tid=501

RE: The 3rd Aldurian parliamentary elections, 1682 AN (March / Early April 2020) - Alduria - 04-05-2020

Following the Aldurian election? Join our Discord server, as that is where most of what I am about to say will take place.

Keep checking back this thread for the latest announcements about the 1682 parliamentary election!

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ELECTION DICE ROLL

A few days ago, I installed the bot called Dice Maiden in the Aldurian Discord to use in the election.

Each day of the election, I will be using Dice Maiden to roll one 100-sided die for each of the political parties participating in the election. The dice roll will then determine events in the campaign trail that you will be expected to respond to in the campaign.

This scale below will be the scale I will be using. I apologize in advance for using a lot of US politics references - I always welcome help in determining equivalents in other countries to help clarify things.

The dice rolls will be performed live in the Aldurian Discord server, in the #news-and-announcements channel.

RE: The 3rd Aldurian parliamentary elections, 1682 AN (March / Early April 2020) - Alduria - 04-06-2020

DAY 2 DICE ROLLS AND RESULTS ARE HERE: https://www.alduria.cc/forum/showthread.php?tid=508&pid=2498#pid2498

RE: The 3rd Aldurian parliamentary elections, 1682 AN (March / Early April 2020) - Alduria - 04-08-2020

HAPPY BREAK DAY!

I will be posting new polling and commentary later today.

Enjoy your break day.

RE: The 3rd Aldurian parliamentary elections, 1682 AN (March / Early April 2020) - Alduria - 04-10-2020

And yesterday was the very last day of the election!

Given that today is Good Friday, I wanted to stay away from scheduling any election-related stuff today. Enjoy the day, whether you celebrate Good Friday or not! Happy Friday.

This election has been a thrill to watch. Looking forward to the results tomorrow!